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Speedo
Using the Aaton A-Minima, I worked on a “Speedo” commercial shot by Klaus Thymann this week-end. After a few set-ups on the beach and in the streets of Venice, we took a small boat to go off-shore and film the model swimming… Let me tell you I felt bad for him when he had to do it… the water was so cold and more agitated that we would have expected… We got some nice slow-motion shots though!
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Metro Station – “Shake It!”
Now producing his own music videos, Justin Benoliel asked me to join his crew with the Jib at the Los Angeles Theater (pretty amazing location), located downtown, to shoot the music video of this new band. Johnny Ching was the DP.
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Atlanta, GA
Today is the 3rd day that I am in Atlanta, working on a series of commercials for Ford, produced by NonFiction. Documentary style oriented, 4 crews are following some “reals” people testing the new cars of the american manufacturer. Josh Rooks is the DP and Sean Coles, the DIT. Oh, and yes, it’s cold here!
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Premiere of “In Treatment”
The TV show I worked on last summer will premiere Jan. 28 at 9:30pm on HBO.
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Jimmy Jib on “Timer”
Harris has been shooting this feature for a couple of weeks and wanted to use the Jib for the last shot of the movie. Last Sunday, we built the arm on the tracks of the “College of the Canyons”, in Santa Clarita. Here is a video of the shoot.
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One day with Dr. Phil…
… in his house! I worked yesterday for the first time on this show where 3 couples are kept for a week in this (obviously fake) house and the famous Doctor visits them for a sort of group therapy. That’s….. reality TV.
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Pascal Obispo’s music video
Using Matt Uhry’s russian Konvas camera, we shot yesterday the new music video of the very well established French singer Pascal Obispo. His new song, “Nouveau Voyage”, features the rapper Baby Bash. We spent most of our day on the beach in Venice before moving to the “Vine Bar” in Hollywood to finish the day. I was the only camera assistant, pulling focus and loading. Very busy day! Thanks to Sean for his help and Marten, our DP. UPDATE 11/23/07: The music video has just been released.
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Let’s shoot in RED!
>Andrew Shulkind offered me to work together again with the jib on a music video for Partizan. The overnight shoot took place in a mexican grocery store in the valley. The exciting part of the project was the camera: the RED! The one we got has the serial number #30 and is obviously still not 100% ready. No viewfinder and most of the outpouts don’t work yet. But the camera was very easy to balanced on the remote head of the Jib and we didn’t have any bugs or problems.
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“Hackett”
In Treatment wrapped 10 days ago now and it has been four days that I am working on the TV Pilot “Hackett”, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Wild Wild West) with Donal Logue and produced by Sony Pictures for Fox. Greg Gardiner is the DP. We’re using 2 Panavision Genesis cameras. We’ve been shooting at the Panorama City High School and will stay there for 2 more days, before ending on stage at the Paramount Studios. IMDB page
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“Waking Dreams” Trailer
I just added the trailer of Waking Dreams (ex-Dreamland), which we shot almost 2 years ago in Texas. Jake Kerber was the DP and Nicolas Martin the 1st AC. I was glad to eventually see it! It was my first feature in the States… Good memories 🙂
